The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-06
The Appropriation Bllls.

| WASHINGTON, March 5.-The aggre
gate of the appropriation bills passed By
the Forty-niuth Congress, is abou
$3.50, OO0, GOO This total is exclusive o.
the sums appropriated by the river and
harbor, and deficiency appropriation
bills, which failed of enactment. Ap-
propriation5 for the current fiscal year
aggregate 1924, 900 coo, which amount
would have been eoualled by the appro-
priation voted by the last Congress, had
! the two bills mentioned become law.
| Some tiea OF the manner III which the
| observation-disclosures wound up its work
may be found III he declaration OF a
member. OF little experience, that the
record revealed the fact that one
quarter IF the legislative session had
/ been enacted in the last few legislative
DAYS An enrolling clerk of twelve
years experience, said that never In
that len n of time, had he Witnessed
the haste exhibited in the last twenty
four hours of the Congress which had
! JUST expired.
Enough papers TO Eli half bushel
basket, all of them Presidential vetoes
of House bills, lay in pile on the
floor of the clerks Office in the House
wing OF the capital this morning. They
number l01 IN all.
By recent order of the President
the military reservations at Fort Oalbille
Washington Territory, has been trans
ferred to the Department of the Interior
for disposition under the act CT July 5th,
1881, it be- ng no longer OF useful mill
tary purposes. The agreement recenrlG
concluded between the West Indian
commission on behalf OF the government
and the Indians of the great BEackfoot
Reservation, northern Montana, has
been received at the Indian bureau.
By its terms three seperate res
ervations are set apart for pernaH-
ent homes for Indians. One for the
Fort Peck agency Indians, another for
the Belknap agency indians and
third for the Indians of the Blackfoot
agency each comprising an area OF
about 1.200 square miles, leaving an
area estimated to contain about
17,500,0O0 acres of territory, about
three times larger than the State OF
Maryland, which the Indians eede the
United States in consideration of the
following sums: For the Fort Peck In
dams, S155, 600 per annum for ten years;
for Fort Belknap Indians, $115,o00 per |
annum for the same period; for the |
Blackfoot agency Indians, $3.50 900 !
per annum for ten years. These, sums
are to be expended under the direction |
of the Secretary of the Interior, for the |
purchase of stock for breeding pur- |
poses, subsistence, clothing and other.
wise for the comfort and civilization Of /
the Indians. 1t is believed BY the /
commission that the compensation /
agreed upon is fair and equitable and |
to place them in q position to
speedily become self-supportins aud re-
quire no further government aid.
Only four of the presidents qomi- |
nations made during the session, just
closed were rendered by the Senate as
follows: j. G, Mathews, of Albany. to
be receiver of deeds of the District of
Charles W. Irish, Indiana;
to be surveyor-general of Nevada;
Charles e. Daley, to be register OF the
and Office at Tuscon. A. t.; Oliver
Shannon, to be receiver of public
at North Platte.
The following is the list of nomina-
tons which remained Enacted upon,
therefore died when the session ended:
J. s. Brooks, United States Attorney
or the Southern District of California;
registers of the land ofice-James NJ. E
Adams, at Spokane Falls, W. T.; W. M.
Blaine, Raekfoot, Idaho. II